Republican strategist Karl Rove today said that a good way for presidential candidate Michele Bachmann to ease concerns about her migraines would be to release her medical records.

But Bachmann, at a campaign stop in Iowa this afternoon, rolled past a question about her health records to say her focus is strictly on federal debt.

On Fox News today, Rove, a close adviser to George W. Bush, said it’s best to be forthcoming when questions about a candidate’s health arise.

“For the Bachmann campaign, this is the first big challenge,” Rove said. “It’s going to be important for her to get her doctors out there, quickly, to provide medical records and to provide the reassurance that people are going to want to have that this is not a serious issue.”

Outside the Palmer’s Deli in West Des Moines this afternoon, a reporter asked Bachmann if she’s planning to release her medical records, how often she has headaches and whether recent news reports about her migraines contained any inaccuracies she’d like to clear up.

Bachmann, a U.S. representative from Minnesota, answered: “The focus that I’ve had, again, is the fact that as commander in chief I’m going to make sure that we get our fiscal house in order.”